U.S. Response to previous use of chemical weapons?

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September 2, 2013
2013-09-02T08:23:19-04:00https://images.c-span.org/Files/562/20130902082348001_hd.jpg"The last major use of chemical weapons did not elicit an armed reponse by the United States. It was by Sadaam Hussein in the 1980's...And when he did that, we didn't even contemplate intervention. In fact, it's pretty clear our government was giving targeting information to the Iraqi military so they'd konw where the Iranians were."

"The last major use of chemical weapons did not elicit an armed reponse by the United States. It was by Sadaam Hussein in the 1980's...And…
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"The last major use of chemical weapons did not elicit an armed reponse by the United States. It was by Sadaam Hussein in the 1980's...And when he did that, we didn't even contemplate intervention. In fact, it's pretty clear our government was giving targeting information to the Iraqi military so they'd konw where the Iranians were." close